Jennifer and Duane Tesch say their daughter, Kennedy, was unanimously voted off of the Madison Heights Wolverines flag football cheerleading team during a team meeting Tuesday night.

The meeting was held to discuss concerns the Tesches voiced last month regarding one of the team’s cheers:

“Our backs ache, our skirts are too tight, we shake our booties from left to right.”

But instead of seeing their concerns with the cheer resolved, the Tesches saw their little girl booted from the team.

“I don’t even have the words,” Jennifer Tesch told FoxNews.com. “I can’t believe their solution to this was to remove my daughter from the team. She’s going to be devastated. She’s going to be crying.”

Funnily enough, I’ve heard little girls sing-song the chant in question. The next verse goes “to the left, to the right, to left, to the right!” and the girls rock their hips.

I also remember one that was simply: “Jump, shake your booty! Jump, jump, shake your booty!” where they’d twist back and forth. (Here’s a YouTube clip of some kids doing it at a day camp.)

I think booty-shaking is just part of the activity. That’s why they wear pleated skirts. Especially at this level of cheerleading, there aren’t that many moves everyone can do with ease, the cheers themselves don’t make much sense and the only people paying attention are the parents. It’s not about being sexy, it’s about little girls having fun.

MomHouston has discussed the “sexualization” of little girls in dance competitions that turn them into mini-Beyonces and how the criticism of their “inappropriateness” can get out of hand.

I think we might have another overreaction here. It’s one little verse in one little song. If these parents would rather their daughter not participate, that’s fine. If the team wants to vote her off, that’s cruel (she’s six!). But if the blogosphere wants to turn this into some huge commentary about the offensiveness of little girls saying “booty,” I think that’s too much.